Guideline for the Article
The article should be written as an expert opinion report.
You should be targeting to a regional,
national, or in
ternational environmental issue
, ranging from water pollution, air pollution, soil
and land pollution, climate change, global warming, deforestation, overpopulation, loss of
biodiversity, ozone depletion, over fishing etc.
It should be
a specific environmental event
, not
general environ
mental situation.
You should have a clear
description of
the problems, location,
and duration. Then you should investigate and analyze the
cause
s for the
identified
environmental problems
, some data might be
used
as appropriate
.
The
consequences of the
environmental problems
should be examined
.
Finally,
you should express your own opinion
s
on
it.
You are encouraged to use Figures and/or tables to illustrate
and support
your statement.
For
example, the Hurricane Harvey can be one of th
e topics.
The Article should
be
no less than
4
pages in
single space
including references. You should
include at least
six
sections:
1) introduction
(
>
1
pages)
;
2) causes
(
>
1
page)
;
3) consequences
(
>
0.5
page)
:
4) solutions
(
>
0.
5
pages)
;
5)
personal opinion
s
(
>
0.5
page)
;
6) references
(>0.5 page)
.
Reference
s
could be any media report, news, or published journal
papers
.
The grading criteria for the article:
5 points for format (all six sections with headings);
5 points for the topics
–
clea
rly an environmental problem, not a natural disaster (earthquake);
20 points for the write
–
up (very solid, insightful and well
–
organized);
20 points for your opinions (it should be your personal opinions on the specific environmental
problems).
Points
will be deducted if: the submissions are late (5 points); the articles are too short (5 points);
the discussion is poor or t
oo brief (5 points); the displays
are inappropriate (5 points); there is no
clear organization (5 points)
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